Women in the Civil War

Name: Women in the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780803282131

ISBN-10: 0803282133

ISBN-13: 9780803282131

Edition: 1994

Authors: Mary Elizabeth Massey, Jean V. Berlin, Mary Massey

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The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict.Women in the Civil Wardemonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. In this revealing social history, Massey focuses on many famous women, including nurses Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Mother Bickerdyke; spies Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd; writers Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut; pamphleteer and military strategist Anna Ella Carroll; black abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; feminists Susan B. Anthony and Jane Grey Swisshelm; and political wives Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln. The anonymous women who maintained farms and plantations…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298

Jean V. Berlin is coeditor of "Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865." A graduate of Haverford College and the University of Virginia, she has taught history at the University of Virginia and Wofford College. Berlin lives in Chandler, Arizona.